On Thu, 12 Jan 2006, ABOKHALAF, Nassri Abdellatif wrote:

Hello all,

I'm having unusual difficulty configuring teaming with Centos 4.2.

The 2 NIC's are Broadcom. The HW is HP DL360 and there is no teaming driver for RHEL4 since it comes with package (says HP).

Since there is no teaming driver from centos (as far as I know), I tried the Broadcom Driver, configured the team file, but the team just wont come up. A Virtual Interface should be up but only eth0 & eth1 appear.

I fell really stupid because with Intel this is pretty straightforward.

Any clues, any suggestions,

super simple now. linux has the bonding driver/

here is a sample. If you want to use tagged vlans it will be slightly different. Let me know if you want a tagged vlan sample.

< /etc/sysconfig/network > NETWORKING=yes HOSTNAME=smtcorms04.samuelmanutech.com VLAN=yes GATEWAY=10.10.0.253 GATEWAYDEV=bond0

< /etc/modprobe.conf > alias bond0 bonding options bonding miimon=100 mode=1 alias eth0 tg3 alias eth1 tg3

< /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 > DEVICE=eth0 BOOTPROTO=static TYPE=Ethernet ONBOOT=yes SLAVE=yes MASTER=bond0

< /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth1 > DEVICE=eth1 BOOTPROTO=static TYPE=Ethernet ONBOOT=yes SLAVE=yes MASTER=bond0

< /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-bond0 > DEVICE=bond0 ONBOOT=yes IPADDR=10.10.4.27 NETMASK=255.255.255.0